NEED TO CATCH up? TheJournal.ie brings you a round-up of today’s news.

IRELAND

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• The sentencing of former minister, Ivor Callely, has been delayed until Monday. 
• A Donegal man has pleaded to dangerous driving causing the deaths of eight men in a car crash four year ago. [RTÉ]
• A teenager was killed in Limerick when his quad bike collided with a tractor. 
• Hundreds of people marched to a garda station in Roscrea today over fears of drug use in the town. 
• Mick Wallace and Clare Daly were arrested at Shannon Airport today as they tried to board and inspect a US military aircraft. Here’s pictures of the scene. 
• Psychiatric nurses at University College Hospital Galway have voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action. 
• The search for missing Irish surfer, Stuart Butler, continues. His friends have described getting into difficulty before Butler disappeared. 
• An emergency response is under way after an ‘extensive fish kill‘ on Dublin’s Tolka River. 
• Three teenage girls have been rescued on Sandymount beach after getting into difficulty because of heavy fog.

INTERNATIONAL 

Pro-Russian rebels and members of OSCE arrive for media briefing at the crash site Vadim Ghirda Vadim Ghirda

#MALAYSIA AIRLINES: Pro-Russian separatists have handed over the bodies of the dead and the plane’s black boxes from the Malaysian plane disaster.

#NO-FLY ZONE: US and European airlines have suspended flights from flying in or out of Israel.

#GAZA: Talks were held in Cairo today to try and bring about an Israel-Palestine ceasefire after two weeks of fighting.

#BOKO HARAM: It has been 100 days since the Nigerian schoolgirls were abducted, here’s a timeline of what has happened in that time.

INNOVATION

• The fastest rocket ever built is going to be on auction in London and it’s expected to go for millions. [Geek.com] 
• An Irish researcher has won a major acclaim for a lifesaving medical app that helps doctors on the ground in remote parts of Africa. [TheJournal.ie] 

PARTING SHOT

The Nostalgia Machine wants you to ‘get your childhood jam on‘ by entering the year you were born and checking out the hits of your birth year.

Originally published 9:00pm